It takes you beneath the two bridges spanning the Menai Strait and runs right by the waters edge in several places offering stunning views.

It can be done as a circular with the return on the pavement along the A5. Care needed.

Note part of the path runs right alongside the Menai Strait and when the tide is in the path is covered by water.

Route

1. From the Pringles shop go onto the railway platform and cross the footbridge.

On the Holyhead-bound platform there is a gate from which a footpath leads towards a level crossing. At the crossing turn right and head towards the main road. Cross the road, which leads towards Brynsiencyn, turn right and walk a short distance until you see a lane on the right.

This will lead down towards the Strait but look out for a small path leading to the left. This is a permissive path open only between 7am and dusk and takes you towards the menai Strait alongside the Indefatigable training school.

Across the water to your right is a collection of houses including Pwllfanogl, where noted artist Sir Kyffin Williams lived and worked for many years.

2. Follow the path to the left and you come to a narrow path raised above the rocky beach. This is a kilometre long (about half a mile) and if the tide’s racing in you may have to turn back as it will be covered in water further on.

If the coast is clear continue past the training school and you’ll see Nelson’s Column in front of you. This is the same size of statue as seen in Trafalgar Square but the column’s a bit shorter. The famous sailor has no connection with Anglesey and the column was erected in 1873 as a navigational aid

Go through St Mary’s churchyard - where you may spot a memorial to those killed while the Britannia Bridge was being built.

The massive bridge was built to carry the Chester-Holyhead railway and opened in 1850. It was nearly destroyed in 1970 when it caught fire.

Repairs were carried out and a road deck added.

Walk onto the lane towards the A5. Turn right and through the Carreg Bran hotel car park following Wales Coast Path (WCP) signs into woodland which will bring you under the road deck of the Britannia Bridge. Along this section keep an eye out for at least one of the four stone lions guarding the railway tracks on the bridge.

3. Continue through the woods, part of it on a boardwalk, and you’ll eventually emerge on the banks of the Strait again. There’s a bird hide along this section of path too.

4. Soon after passing a small wooden lion turn right and head up towards the A5.

Reaching the road turn right and walk past houses until a road leads down to the rugby club.

You’ll pick up the path again which leads around to Coed Cyrnol. A short walk along a causeway will bring you to Church Island. In the cemetery is the grave of well known poet Sir Albert Evans-Jones or Cynan. Return to the path and turn right along the Belgian Causeway, so called after the World war 1 refugees who built it.

5. Follow WCP signs and you’ll come to the Menai Suspension bridge and soon the town of Menai Bridge.

Before the Menai Bridge was built in the 1820s ferries transported people and animals between Anglesey and the mainland. After the Act of Union in 1800 between Great Britain and Ireland, more travellers passed through Anglesey on their journey to Holyhead, the port for Ireland.

Thomas Telford submitted his plans for the world’s first long iron suspension bridge in 1818 and work started with the building of the towers in 1819. The design, with a central span of 579feet allowed plenty of headroom for sailing ships to pass underneath, which was suspended by wrought-iron chains.

The bridge opened on January 30, 1826 when the first mail coach crossed. The original basic bridge survives, apart from being strengthened with a steel deck and chains.

If you’re catching the bus back to llanfairpwll the bus stops are in Wood Street by the library.